Walker v. Ruggles’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1991
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Clements v. Withers · Shell Oil Co., Inc. v. Howth · Kidd v. Hoggett · Morrow v. Ft. Worth & D. C. Ry. Co. · Reaugh v. McCollum Exploration Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in Texas that in order for a party to recover in an action for ‘slander of title’ he must allege and prove: (1) the uttering and publishing of the disparaging words, (2) that they were false, (3) that they were malicious, (4) that he sustained special damages thereby, (5) and that the plaintiff possessed an estate or interest in the property disparaged. . . . ” (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In such case the impossibility or the great difficulty of showing the identity of the particular person or persons who were dissuaded from purchasing the thing by the publication of the disparaging matter makes evidence of the owner’s inability to avail himself of a ready market for the thing in question sufficient proof of the loss ...” Walker , 475.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. Waldrop
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.